Arlington's Signature Theatre announced today that Eric Schaeffer, the co-founder and only Artistic Director the company has ever had, will retire from that position and leave the company on…
Bethesda's Flying V Theatre's Board of Directors has terminated the employment of Artistic Director Jason Schlafstein. The action comes three days after the Board placed Schlafstein on admin…
Craig (Craig Wallace) has found his feet in this week's episode, "Community," by Agyeiwaa Asante. He's been able to run 2.23 miles to honor Ahmaud Arbery, and now he can't stop running. And,…
Order in the living room! There is no bottom to Washington's taste for litigation, but Shakespeare Theatre's Mock Trial went beyond itself last night, charging Nick Bottom and the rest of th…
The film version of the Broadway musical phenom, Hamilton, will premiere on streaming service Disney+ starting July 3. Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda first posted the trailer on his Twi…
Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, the day that a regiment of Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas to announce the end of the Civil War and the emancipation of the enslaved peoples…
1998 was promising to be a banner year for Joy Zinoman and her Studio Theatre. Already settled into a stunning new building which opened the previous year that shone with what Washington…
If any of Homebound's episodes have been pure joy, it is episode 7, "The Date," written by Dani Stoller, who finally finds Maboud (Maboud Ebrahimzadeh) a match in the charming pixie-ish L…
Recommended by Anastasia Wilson, DC actor now based in Atlanta. "And as the pepper gas clears And police and protestors go home Just as the morning dew are tear drops of the night My emot…
A new company is launching audiences into space with an exciting confluence of new technology and theatre. In Shattered Space by The Scattered Players, audiences take on the role of Star Joc…
Twilight: Los Angeles Great Performances, PBS Free Click to view In response to the national crisis in the aftermath of the murders of Ahmaud Arbery (Brunswick, GA), Breonna Taylor (Louisvil…
Bethesda's Round House Theatre has elected to cancel the 2020 portion of its live theater schedule, the company announced on Tuesday. "Governor Hogan's Roadmap to Recovery outlines a phased …
The theater is the place where things are shown: that is, it's a mirror where things that we don't make overt in daily life are brought out in front of us to see. While we usually talk a…
We are like clay. Life, a chisel. Every experience we have brings us one step closer to seeing our ultimate form. Every hardship, every heartbreak, every trauma, every laugh forever shaping …
70 days. 10 weeks. 2 months. 1,680 hours. 100,800 minutes. 6,048,000 seconds. No. This is not the lyric sheet to some RENT musical remix. This is the amount of time that stood between Theatr…
Strange Loop, Michael R. Jackson's Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, is, itself, stuck in a strange loop. The smash Off-Broadway hit was scheduled to come to Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Septembe…
Billie Krishawn is a DC area actor and photographer whose work will soon appear on our pages. This weekend she is back on the streets, adding to her extensive photo coverage of the Black Liv…
"It's been a long, long time coming But I know that change is gonna come" " Sam Cooke, 1964 Recommended by Pamela Jafari. "I am a Washingtonian senior who is Black, lesbian, a mo…
On Monday, June 8, Galvanize DC and Actors Arena will host "Making Space To Breathe/Gathering To Grieve" outside Arena Stage at 7 p.m. The artist-driven vigil is being held to create a s…
With thousands of people planned to gather in DC this weekend to protest police brutality, a number of theaters have joined the #OpenYourLobby movement and announced that they will open …
I always root for romance, even in plague times. Maybe that's why I was completely drawn in by THE MIXTAPE, local playwright and Bowie State professor Bob Bartlett's "connection during coron…
Native Washingtonian poet and playwright John Johnson told us: "I am inspired to create art because I was born a artist it goes along with my breathing and heart beat, it is like a vital org…
We ask: what art by artists of color sustains or inspires you? From Gregory J. Ford comes this answer. As a little Black boy being "raised" in the Church of God in Christ, the 23rd Psalm was…
Sometimes it snows in April Sometimes I feel so bad, so bad Sometimes I wish life was never ending And all good things, they say, never last Prince wrote that in 1985 on the song "Someti…
DC Theatre Scene stands in solidarity with all people fighting for racial justice in this country. We stand in witness to the righteous anger and despair brought on by the killing of George …